Two-photon decay of light scalars: a comparison of tetraquark and quarkonium assignments

Abstract

Two-photon decays of light scalar mesons are discussed within the quarkonium and tetraquark asignements: in both cases the decay rate of the sigma resonances turns out to be smaller than 1 keV.

Talk given at the XII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscpy, (Hadron 07), Frascati (Rome), 8-13 October 2007

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• On the two-photon decay width of the sigma meson

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